This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education … classes in the development process. We find that the average middle class person is not an entrepreneur in waiting: while he …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …This paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke's journey through the history of development … professional career as a development economist and his research interactions with major contributors to the discipline. The next …

A 2015 World Bank report on attainment of Millennium Development Goals concludes that the number of extremely poor has … dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … Africa. Ashraf and Galor have concluded that cross-country differences in development can be explained by genetic diversity …

During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality … various socioeconomic outcomes, it will be important to consider retooling existing pro-development policy interventions and … focus on human capital development, sustainable infrastructure, food security, and climate-smart agriculture practices …

development analysis, challenges the existing development literatures and proposes a new paradigm of economism that incorporates … and re-interprets many of the post-war development issues. This book is largely conceptual in nature and philosophically … knits together development issues within the economic domain …

Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality …

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …